Brad King wrote: > On 02/27/2014 03:32 AM, Stephen Kelly wrote: >> IDE generators are problematic though. >> >> 'git grep GetExternalObjects' shows that the IDEs mostly don't call >> GetExternalObjects at all. > > In this discussion we must distinguish "external objects" that are > explicit .o files mentioned in the list of sources and OBJECT library > objects.
Why do we have to distinguish them? I'm trying to not distinguish them. Is the reason related to what you write below about VS10? > All the generators, including the IDE generators, funnel > handling of OBJECT library objects through UseObjectLibraries. Yes, I'm trying to eliminate UseObjectLibraries. It requires that the list of object libraries is pre-populated (by calling LookupObjectLibraries) and the list of Objects and the ObjectDirectory are pre-populated by the Global generators. Instead we need to be able to determine the objects on demand, based on the calling context. > GetExternalObjects is a cmGeneratorTarget method to access the > source files classified as external objects. Yes. My intention was to make GetExternalObjects 'the way' to get the objects (without distinction) by evaluating TARGET_OBJECTS in cmGeneratorExpressionEvaluator. > >> Xcode does it's own thing entirely. > > Hmm, that is true for VS < 10 also. All those generators still > have their own loops to classify sources. They will have to > be refactored to use cmGeneratorTarget. Note that the IDE > generators also need to deal with source groups. Can you do this? I'm not familiar enough with the generators or the IDEs themselves. Thanks, Steve. -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
